Advice: How to use dates on Wikipedia
Please don't change the dates. Most British people and many people internationally write dates as dd/mm/yy, eg, 12 December 1904. Most Americans use mm/dd/yy, eg, December 12 1904. If the article is about an American topic, use mm/dd/yy. If it is a British topic, use dd/mm/yy. If neither, leave it as originally written. Many Americans or British people take offence if an article written about their country and which was written in their local version of English is changed around to a version they don't use. So please do not do that.
All dates usually have two square boxes around them, as in [[12 December]] or [[December 12]]. This means that you can set your preferences (if you look around your screen you'll see the word preferences. Just hit that and follow the instructions) to ensure that you see all dates in the format you want, whether dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy or yyyy/mm/dd. The general rules on how Wikipedia articles are written can be seen in our Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Type in WP:MS and you'll see the page.
If you have any queries about all this, just ask anyone on Wikipedia and they will help you. Enjoy your time on the web's fastest growing encyclopædia (or encyclopedia, if you write it that way!). Thank you. Please stop adding those pointless religion categories. They are pointless. Categories need to be reasonably manageable. There are billions of friggin' Catholics. Adding in Catholic, or Christian, etc is about as pointless as adding people by the colour of their eyes or the fact that they have four fingers and a thumb on their left hand. 99% of Irish people in articles are going to Catholics so it is a completely pointless link. FearÉIREANN
\(caint) 02:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Please stop changing dates around on articles. You can set the format of dates you wish to see through use of the your preferences. Just hit the preference command on your Wikipedia page. Different parts of the world use different date formats. Many internationally use dd/mm/yy (eg, 21/04/02 for 21st April 2002). Americans and some internationally use mm/dd/yy (eg, 04/21/02). Some prefer yyyy/mm/dd (eg, 2002/04/21). Dates on US topics should use mm/dd/yy. Dates on UK topics use dd/mm/yy. In international articles leave the page as designed by original author. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:06, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
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